336 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.

The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.

With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won’t do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal – these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one’s own passions.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought:...

Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.

A fugitive paradise smiles at him from her eyes: He dreams of her beauty made for ever his, He dreams of his mastery her limbs shall bear, He dreams of the magic of her breasts of bliss.

Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars.